What I want after the pandemic

— Photo by Bernard Gagnon

Jersey Street at the main entrance to Fenway Park. It was formerly called Yawkey Way, after the Red Sox owner from 1933 to 1976, Tom Yawkey. But because of complaints about Yawkey’s racism in the management of the Sox, the City of Boston changed it back to its original name, Jersey Street, in 2018.

“Forget the frank, the hot dog —

Give me the Fenway sausage.

Landsdowne or Yawkey,

Just give me the street, the crowds, the carts.’’

— From “Sausage,’’ by Raymond Foss (born 1960). Trained as a lawyer, he’s now mostly a poet. He lives in Barrington, N.H.

Barrington is now a bedroom community with farms and lots of woodland.
Back in the early 19th Century its primary industry was iron-ore smelting. The Isinglass River, together with its tributaries, provided water power for grist and saw mills for many decades.

Locke's Falls on the Isinglass River in Barrington